Energy

Northborough manufacturer Aspen Aerogels, Inc. has secured $340 million in financing to help pay for the construction of the company’s Statesboro, Georgia facility.

The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts has fallen 5 cents from last week’s $3.81.

Ameresco, a Framingham-based clean-energy firm, has acquired a five-megawatt wind farm in west County Cork, Ireland.

If electric vehicles really take off as many environmental activists are hoping they will, highway service plazas like the ones along the Mass. Turnpike could need 20-plus chargers and might use as much electricity as a small town to accommodate fast-charging on peak travel days, a new National Grid study found.

The average price for a gallon of gasoline in Massachusetts continues rising. This week the price went up one cent to $3.85– marking an overall 26 cent increase in the last month, according to travel association AAA Northeast. 

On Nov. 3, New England Botanic Garden was honored as the first botanic garden in the nation to be certified a Green Zone by the American Green Zone Alliance, as the Boylston garden is now performing all routine maintenance with electric lawn and garden equipment. 

These types of facilities are expected to become significantly more prevalent as energy costs remain unpredictable and large organizations seek the stability of generating heat and electricity onsite.

Embue, a Worcester-based startup that works with property owners to make buildings more energy and operationally efficient, raised $2.3 million in seed money.

The price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts has risen to $3.84 from last week’s $3.77, according to a Monday press release from travel association AAA Northeast.

Mayflower Wind told state regulators Monday that it "intends to move forward" with the offshore wind contracts it agreed to this year, but also said that it will share with the state and utility companies an outside analysis of "challenges to financeability, with the goal of finding solutions that provide value to the rate payers."